Laboratory Brains

(London, England)

Miniature ‘human brains’ have been grown in a lab in a feat scientists hope will transform the understanding of neurological disorders, the BBC reports this morning.

The pea sized brains reached the same level of development as in a nine-week-old foetus, but are incapable of thought.

The study, published in the journal Nature, has already been used to gain insight into rare diseases. Professor Paul Mathews, from Imperial College London, has used the breakthrough to investigate a disease called microcephaly. He called the breakthrough ‘mindboggling’

Interesting. This means there is hope for at least one dumb worker at my local convenience store since now a transplant seems achievable. However, while hoping for improvement in brain function, it's a crap shoot as to whether my convenience store cretin will get smarter with a new pea.